Sustainable Asia

May 06 2024 93 ep. 1.1k
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Stories about Asia and the environment...that you probably haven’t heard yet.  A new perspective on how different countries in Asia are tackling a changing planet. 

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S16E4: Lab Grown Fish - A Climate Change Solution?

May 06 2024 25 mins  
Asia’s demand for seafood takes more than 60 percent of the global supply. Could lab grown fish be the solution to marine species extinction?

S17E4: INC-4 and Plastic Chemicals

Apr 22 2024 36 mins  
With INC4 starting this week and US EPA banning PFAS in drinking water, problematic plastics and chemicals of concern are top of the agenda.

S17E3: INC-3 Is Over…What Now?

Apr 09 2024 31 mins  
With final meetings of the global plastic treaty beginning soon…can we redirect the conversation back to plastic pollution prevention?

S17E2: Plastisphere Podcast's How (Not) to Make a Plastics Treaty - Part I: Ambition in a Bracket

Mar 24 2024 31 mins  
A bonus episode decoding the politics and procedures slowing down negotiations of a UN Global Plastics Treaty. From our friends at the Plastisphere Podcast.

S17E2: What happened at INC-2?

Jun 25 2023 29 mins  
We talk to Marian Ledesma of Greenpeace Southeast Asia and Christina Dixon of Environmental Investigation Agency about what happened at the INC-2 meetings in Paris last week.

S17E1: Bonus Episode: Plastisphere Podcast's Demands for the Plastic Treaty - Science over Profit

Jun 09 2023 35 mins  
A bonus episode about the Global Plastics Treaty from one of our favorite podcasts called Plastisphere Podcast.

S17E1: Why It's No Longer About Recycling

May 25 2023 29 mins  
We need other solutions to the plastic waste crisis. Solutions that involve reduce, reuse, refill and repair here in Asia. And those types of solutions…need to be included in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations.

S17E1: New Season | Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations

May 25 2023 3 mins  
A special season about the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations happening over the next two years…with episodes dropping before and after every meeting!

S16E3: Cows | A Climate Stomach Ache

May 24 2023 29 mins  
We shift our focus from crops to livestock… specifically… dairy products made from cows. We humans have eaten dairy products for centuries…but only recently did we realize the impact that cows are having on climate change.

S16E2: Rice｜A Sticky Climate Challenge

May 15 2023 30 mins  
Rice is the staple food for more than 3.5 billion people. But did you know that rice farming produces 10% of the world’s methane emissions? In this episode, Marcy and Chermaine will start their journey from Madagascar in the 1960s…